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APPENDIX.— ^HIP BUILDING. 



Jesse Carll. 



Of all the Northport shipbuilders perhaps the most successful and 

 widely known isBoss Jesse Carll, a native of Huntington town, who, when 17 

 years old began an apprenticeship of five years with Boss James M. Bayles, 

 of Port Jefterson. In 1855 he began business at the yard now occupied 

 by him, then one-half its present size in connection with his brother David 

 Carll. In that year they built for Seth R. Robbins, of Brooklyn, two 

 sloop lighters each of about 80 tons, but their names are not given. In 

 the following year they built for the noted Appleton Oaksmitt a fine bark 

 of about 650 tons — a large vessel in those days, having a poop-deck and 

 two full decks— named the Storm Bird. She was launched inside of 87 



